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لقرآن (the Quran) is not tremendously distinguished as a Abrahamic book of truth, any more than תּוֹרָה (the Torah, or Pentateuch), the Bible in its various translations, the Book of Mormon, and any of the rest. The differences are pretty small between these items, and they crib a great deal from the ones that appear earlier.

I liked this video. It reminded me of the underused word "unctuous" which refers to those oily "wormtongue" nice people we all know and despise.

Indeed, the names do not differentiate on the cause, only on the effect. If you looking at differentiation on cause instead of effect you get things like "printing money", "fractional reserve lending", and "quantitative easing."

Currency devaluation is what happens when one currency is manipulated with respect to another. Inflation is what happens when one currency is manipulated against itself.

The format I recall had the subjects and selected which team each side of the issue a few weeks before the event.

"cookie cutter" is a derisive term for someone or something that is so completely normal as to be indistinguishable from others "character builder" is a positive term for a challenge that ends up improving someone, generally behavior, thinking, or knowledge.

I can. "At least the trains run on time" is no reason to accept terror and abuse from early childhood to death and the concept of "human rights" is a far cry from objectively-derived morals. When people are reminded that they can only get from society those rights they are willing to fight over they realize just how tenuous and random "universal human rights" really are.

I call it Abrahamist-Collectivist, but I just tend to cast my net a tad farther.

A good time to review Real Time Relationships

Very sorry to hear that. It's a tough one to fight. My father got it from a tick bite a couple decades ago. It's definitely good that you and your team figured out what was wrong.

When I did a petition at change.org to document the background checks for all the weapons transfers to Syrian rebels, not much happened.

What kind of dressing livens up a word salad?

http://m.space.com/30302-lagrange-points.html A discussion of Lagrange points...

When it gets more interesting is when the press blows some study way out of proportion but make nary a peep when that study is discredited or retracted.

And his dad said atheists shouldn't be allowed to vote...

There's a plausible alternative: abundant resources, empathy for animals that have faces, and a desire to be "different" (or to cleave to what seemed like a trendy clique) in order to set oneself apart from others.

Yeah, this board was filtered on an airport wifi I ran into once, too.

Rational beings can differ in circumstance and have different interests as a result, thus those interests can conflict. For example: allocation of scarce resources. Another example: the interests of rational children versus the interests of rational parents.

https://www.springer.com/gb/about-springer/media/statements/retraction-of-articles-from-springer-journals/735218 It is entirely coincidental that I'm in Heidelberg this week... The list: http://link.springer.com/search?query=The+Publisher+and+Editor+retract+this+article+in+accordance+with+the+recommendations+of+the+Committee+on+Publication+Ethics+%28COPE%29&date-facet-mode=between&facet-start-year=2015&previous-start-year=1995&facet-end-year=2015&previous-end-year=2015 Relevant: RetractWatch -> http://retractionwatch.com/2015/08/17/64-more-papers-retracted-for-fake-reviews-this-time-from-springer-journals/

Except that the speed cameras take everyone's picture and speed and there's no guarantee that they don't give the information to others wholesale. Will a criminal know someday that you are not home because a speed camera saw you somewhere else? Waze let's you mark speed cameras and choose alternate routes, btw.

And now people are getting fooled by the "check to see if emails are on the list" sites...

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You can spot a tautology just from the way it sounds. http://www.tautologyexamples.com/ To your other question, ask them to give some real world examples of how praxeology has no value, and dating situations don't count.

I'm just wondering if the way they see out of $100T+ of debt seems to be to make "trillion" meaningless.

If everyone devalues their currency at once, and you get worldwide inflation, it only makes debt and cash worth less, and real property and commodities worth more in relative terms. Is this the real plot, to diminish all debts by making them relatively worthless because they are termed in yesterday's dollars?